Amis, Kingsley, Leader, Zachary (ed.).

The Letters of Kingsley Amis.

London, HarperCollins, 2000, 1st ed., LIV,(2),1208 pag., plates, hardcover with (price-clipped) dustjacket. = I have not laughed aloud at a book so frequently for a very long time...a major literary event' David Lodge, Times Literary SupplementKingsley Amis was a prolific, brilliant and outrageous correspondent. In letters to friends like Philip Larkin and Robert Conquest he could unbutton himself to an extent impossible in work intended for publication, and as a result the more than 800 letters included in this volume contain some of his wittiest and most acerbic writings.They reveal Amis's youthful dissatisfactions, which would be comically recreated in his spectacularly successful first novel, Lucky Jim; his love of jazz; his frequently caustic observations about family life; the painful breakdown of his first marriage, and the subsequent souring of his second, to the novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard; and his development into one of the country's most revered, yet uniquely controversial, literary figures. Seldom can any writer have provided such a lively and coruscating self-portrait as is revealed by these letters.

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"Amis, Kingsley / Zachary Leader (ed.)"

"The Letters of Kingsley Amis"

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Fussell, Paul

The Anti-Egotist: Kingsley Amis, Man of Letters

New York and Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1994. 206p. dj. .

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Keywords: Kingsley Amis English Literature

PAUL FUSSELL

The Anti-Egotist Kingsley Amis, Man of Letters

Oxford University Press. 1994. Hard Cover. Hardcover dj/pub.1994/VG condition/206 pages - This text traces the influences that have shaped Amis's writings, ranging from his school days throungh military service to university teaching, as he em erged as a novelist, poet, and essayist. [KT11 2351]. Good.

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AMIS Kingsley, LEADER Zachary [Editor]

The Letters of Kingsley Amis

HarperCollins, 2000. 1st edn 1st printing. Tall 8vo. Original gilt lettered black cloth (VG), dustwrapper (VG, not price clipped). Pp. lvi + 1212, illus with b&w plates (no inscriptions). .

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